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| Posted: Tue Jun 12th, 2007 01:20 am |
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flat9safety Approved
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In the tabs sections where i can get tabs to songs, im starting to pick up a few of the tunes, but i have a couple of questions, on some of them it shows to play a cord like this (twinkle twinkle little star chord solo http://www.ezfolk.com/uke/tabs1/twinkle-m/twinkle-1/twinkle-1.html ----- ----1 ----0 ----2 now, are they saying u only strum the bottom 3 strings as opposed to: ----0 ----1 ----0 ----2 ^here would u strum all 4? this leads into my second question, i found a twinkle twinkle little star http://www.ezfolk.com/uke/tabs1/twinkle-m/twinkle-m.html where u are only pressing one finger down at a time, does this inffer you only fingerpick the tune? it looks like this: ---3-3-5-5-3--- 1-1------------ --------------- ---------------
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12th, 2007 01:58 am |
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Richard Hefner Administrator 
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Yes, that's right... in the first example you hold the F chord and play the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th string but not the 1st string. The reason for this is that the note you're playing on the 2nd string is the melody note so I used that as the highest pitched note in the chord, while the lower notes harmonize with that melody note. The other arrangement is not a fingerpicking arrangement. It's just the bare bones melody without anything else, so it doesn't matter how you play it -- fingers, thumb, or whatever. That melody arrangement is the foundation for the other arrangements. So the plain melody arrangement found here... http://www.ezfolk.com/uke/tabs1/twinkle-m/twinkle-m.html ... is the basis of the other two arrangements. The "EZ Chord Melody Arrangement" that was your first example... http://www.ezfolk.com/uke/tabs1/twinkle-m/twinkle-1/twinkle-1.html As well as a more advanced fingerpicking arrangement you can find here... http://www.ezfolk.com/uke/tabs1/twinkle-m/twinkle-3/twinkle-3.html It really makes a nice ukulele fingerpicking arrangement. You can hear me play the more advanced fingerpicking arrangement by clicking the following link... http://ezfolk.com/audio/play.php?mode=song_hifi&band_id=2&song_id=7557 
____________________ Richard Hefner MP3 Page: http://www.ezfolk.com/audio/richardhefner Running Blog: http://old-runner.com |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12th, 2007 02:33 am |
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flat9safety Approved
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ok great i understand perfectly, but i still have a question, u said when i play that f that the other notes are lower and harmonize it, BUT the note being played on the 4th string is an A (higher than the f). so basically im asking, since cords can sound so different, yet be the same note, how does it all play out?
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12th, 2007 02:51 am |
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Richard Hefner Administrator
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Hey, that's a good point: I never even thought about the 4th string 2nd fret being higher than the melody note (2nd string 1st fret). It still works fine though... seems to sound okay in both arrangements. In the simpler arrangement I think it works because you're basically strumming the chord (except for the 1st string) and ending on the 2nd string, therefore since you're not playing them at exactly the same time you still hear the melody note clearly and you also get that re-entrant sound coming from the 4st string. In the fingerpicking arrangement (be sure to listen to the MP3) I think it works because I'm doing an alternating thumb pattern in every measure (4-3-4-3-), which keeps the rhythm going on the 4th and 3rd strings while all of the melody notes are concentrated on the 1st and 2nd strings. There might be other places in the song where the melody is not the highest pitched note being played at the time but you can still hear it because the alternating thumb pattern is being used constantly throughout. I guess that could be an argument for using a low G tuning, but I still like the quirkiness of the high pitched string on top. 
____________________ Richard Hefner MP3 Page: http://www.ezfolk.com/audio/richardhefner Running Blog: http://old-runner.com |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19th, 2008 05:25 am |
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ezmember Approved
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Richard, you do an excellent job on that song, both playing and singing!
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